Deadline: 1-Mar-25
The First Fed Foundation is inviting grant applications to improve the quality of life in the communities in which First Fed maintains full-service branches.
Funding Priorities
- Community Support: They contribute to eligible community and human service organizations that improve the quality of life within the communities they serve. They give priority to programs and projects that build capacity to better serve the broader community, and efforts that benefit low- to moderate-income, disadvantaged, and/or marginalized persons or families.
- Housing & Homelessness: They support programs and projects that address homelessness and expand the availability of and access to decent, safe, and affordable housing for low- and moderate-income, disadvantaged, and/or marginalized persons and/or families in the communities they serve.
- Economic Development: They fund initiatives that encourage and expand economic development and living-wage job opportunities in their target communities, with emphasis on collaborative and public/private initiatives sponsored by local organizations dedicated to economic development.
- Community Development: They support capital projects and other community development efforts that offer valuable benefits to broad segments of the communities they serve, with emphasis on collaborative and public/private initiatives featuring multiple funding sources.
Categories
- Community Support Grants
- Housing & Homelessness, Economic Development and Community Development Grants
Funding Information
- Community Support grants range from $5,000 minimum to $25,000 maximum.
- Housing & Homelessness, Economic Development and Community Development grants range from $25,000 minimum to $100,000 maximum.
Ineligible Costs
- Completed projects.
- Budget deficits.
- Debt reduction.
- General operating expenses. Note: They understand that projects or programs being proposed in a grant may impact operating costs. As such, those operating costs may not be considered ‘general’ in nature, may be eligible for funding, and should be identified in the budget submitted with the grant application so that they may be considered as part of the overall project or program costs.
- Event sponsorships.
- Contributions to individuals.
- Contributions to political or labor organizations, candidates, or causes.
- Contributions that facilitate religious mission, doctrine, or organization.
- Proposals that would cause the Foundation to be in violation of its Conflict of Interest Policy.
Eligibility Criteria
- Tax-exempt organizations under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), including public charities as described in IRC 509(a)(1)-(4) and 170(b)-(c). Government units, school districts, and tribes are also eligible to receive grants from the Foundation.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Provided the fiscal sponsor meets their eligibility criteria. The grant application must be completed on behalf of and signed by the fiscal sponsor, and the required financial information submitted should pertain to the fiscal sponsor. Information on the sponsored applicant and the project or program for which they are seeking funds is also required.
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